Iman wasn’t granted a visa initially as she was couldn’t leave the house to get to the embassy to be fingerprinted.

It wasn’t until India's External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj saw her plight on Twitter that she was granted the medical visa..

Dr Muffazzal Lakdawala, the surgeon who’ll perform the series of operations, says she could lose 400kg in two years.However, there is the huge problem of actually getting Iman to Mumbai from Egypt. At the moment, there’s hope a private plane will be able to take the 36-year-old to Egypt.